Maintaining current user information in Android
Every but trivial android application needs to maintain information about current user - regardless if he has authenticated or not. While this may sound easy there are still at least handful of ways one can do it - in this article I’m going to explore couple of them. Keeping state in custom class This technique boils…
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I had to solve a seemingly trivial bug in an angularjs based application that turned out to be more interesting than usual. The bug The bug report stated that “Clicking on a label causes page reload”. That should be an easy one I thought to myself and openeded chrome inspector to see a structure of DOM. Here’s a…
ReadLazy Apk - a simple TeamCity artifact downloader
At Bright Inventions we use TeamCity as a continuous integration server. Apart from building, running tests and uploading artifacts we sometimes use it to quickly distribute an android application to clients and test team. However we found using TeamCity UI on a mobile device isn’t as pleasing as it could be. That’s…
ReadGoogle Play Services is no longer a giant monolith
Nowadays it’s getting harder and harder to build a meaningful app and not rely on Google Play Services to aid us in some commonly required features such as maps, better location provider, geo fencing and so much more. Unfortunately up until now the library shipped as a giant monolith ripping us from one third of dex…
ReadIntegrate slf4j with Crashlytics
As I mentioned in my previous post having meaningful log entries comes handy during development. When an app reaches beta testers as well as goes live it’s equally or even more important to be able to figure out why the app you’ve carefully coded isn’t behaving as it should. Testing the app on all android flavours is…
ReadIntroducing slf4android - a simple slf4j implementation for android
Every now and then you have a bug that is hard to reproduce or only happens on certain phones or android versions. The thing that really comes handy in such case is a detailed application log. That’s why it’s so important to take time to add useful log entries in every non trivial part of the codebase. At the very…
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